USS Eutaw (1863)

USS "Eutaw", a 1173-ton "Sassacus" class "double-ender" steam gunboat built at Baltimore, Maryland by J. J. Abrahams, was commissioned on 2 July 1863 with Lieutenant Commander H. C. Blake in command.

Assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, she spent most of the American Civil War operating on the Potomac and James Rivers and along the Atlantic coast. In 4 May and 5 May 1864, "Eutaw" covered the Army as it landed below City Point, Virginia, and, on 14 July and 17 July of that year, she bombarded the Confederates at Malvern Hill. Later on 5 July 1864, along with the "Augusta", she towed the ill-fated monitor USS "Tecumseh" from Hampton Roads to the Gulf of Mexico, returning to the James River on 22 August.

In April 1865, with the War nearly at an end, "Eutaw" went to New York City on 26 April, where she was decommissioned on 8 May. She was sold on 15 October 1867.

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* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e5/eutaw.htm history.navy.mil: USS "Eutaw"]